Display current logged-in user

Question

I'm using Symfony and sfDoctrineGuardPlugin.

How do I display, in a template, the username of the current user ?

I've tried $this->getUser()->getUsername(), but all I get is the error : "Call to undefined method sfPHPView::getUser."

I'm trying to display the username in a layout.php, not in a particular module/template

Well according to your error, $this does not have a function called getUser(), make sure you are calling it from the right object. — Jose Vega, Nov 18 '10 at 14:14
you can find answers on that kind of questions in the documentation on the Symfony-project website — Kennethvr, Nov 18 '10 at 14:23

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 04 '12 at 01:28

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In a template (view), use $sf_user:

For the username:

echo $sf_user->getUsername();

For the id:

echo $sf_user->getAttribute('user_id', null, 'sfGuardSecurityUser');

Or, in an action (controller), you can do what you're doing in your question:

$this->username = $this->getUser()->getUsername();

and then $username will be available in your view template.

See template shortcuts in the Symfony docs for other view variable shortcuts.

edited Mar 04 '12 at 01:28

Tapper

answered Nov 18 '10 at 14:18

richsage

I might be wrong, but I think it's better to not use $sf_user in a template, you can better retrieve all the needed data in an action and then use a variable filled with the data to be used in the template. Just to seperate business and views. – Kennethvr Nov 18 '10 at 14:24
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I think it depends how much logic you're going to do in the view - if you're simply displaying the username, then I don't see any harm in it - it's a variable you're echoing out, no additional logic required (same as `echo $myObj->field;` really). If you need to do manipulation on that variable prior to display, then it's better to keep it in the action yes. – richsage Nov 18 '10 at 14:31
It causes an error when no user is logged in though ... any ideas ? I tried isset ans is_object, but they seem to always return true. – Manu Nov 18 '10 at 15:44
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It's because getUsername() really calls getGuardUser()->getUsername(). As you're not logged in GuardUser is not there. Make a check first with $sf_user->isAuthenticated(). – Jakub Zalas Nov 18 '10 at 15:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 18 '10 at 14:54

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Try the following. One of them may work.

$this->getSfGuardUser()
$this->getGuardUser()
$this->getUser()->getSfGuardUser()
$this->getUser()->getGuardUser()

answered Nov 18 '10 at 14:54

Jason Swett

2 Answers2